By Joe R
So if you figured that the helicopter crash at the end of last week's episode would lead to one night full of harrowing triage, you're actually not correct. Ben, Cole and Plastics manage to pull everyone out of the chopper before it explodes, and everyone looks stable enough to take back to the clinic. It's the day, dealing with the complications, that turns harrowing. The pilot has a huge metal shard through his gut, which Ben has to saw his way through. During surgery, the pilot blows an artery, and Cole's hands are shaking (from doing heroin? From NOT doing heroin?) too much to pull the shard out, so it's Charlie (who had earlier been yelled at by Plastics to go home) to provide the steady, medically-unlicensed hands.
Mina thinks she's patching up Julio the appendix patient, but actually (and true to TV cliché), it's his seemingly-well wife, Lynn, who turns out to have spinal cord damage. An unsure Mina performs the surgery (again with a shaky-handed Cole), and it's a success; only Lynn also got an aneurysm from a blow to the head, and when that blows, Mina can't save her. It's heartbreaking, and she winds up breaking down in tears on Cole's shoulder.
The only one missing after the crash is Felicia, Clark's little-girl patient with the deadly bug bite. Clark treks into the jungle alone to find her, and the stress on her diseased heart isn't inconsiderable. After falling down a hill, Clark finds the girl, nearly goes into cardiac arrest, and then, when she does get the girl back to the clinic, she has to convince the girls' mother not to give up on treatment just because the iron bird dropped her children from the sky. Oh, and she finally tells Dr. Ben about her heart condition, and he examines her to find that she's in the stages of heart failure. So: bummer.
Finally, Lily spends a lot of time feeling guilty that she was banging Mateo under the waterfall when the plane crashed. She decides that Mateo's outlaw status makes him too complicated to think about dating, but after a talk with Ben, of all people, she decides to follow her gut and visit Mateo on his farm. His farm where he's growing ALL the cocaine plants in Probably South America.
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